American Constitution Society Prof Has Concerns About Supreme Court Nominee

The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is the nation’s leading progressive legal organization. One of their scholars, University of North Carolina Law Professor Bill Marshall was in Laramie this week speaking at the University of Wyoming law school.

We asked him to stop by and discuss Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch. Marshall told Wyoming Public Radio’s Bob Beck that he has concerns about Gorsuch and his take on the Constitution. Professor Marshall begins by explaining how he sees things.

Restorative justice programs are on the rise across the country. The practice facilitates meetings between victims, offenders, and community members, in order to repair some of the harm caused by crime. Now, a group of volunteers in Casper is looking for ways to incorporate practices of restorative justice into the legal system.

The University of Wyoming College of Law will hold the second annual Spencer Law Firm Historical Trial Production. This year, it's a mock trial of John Wilkes Booth, who famously murdered President Lincoln. The objective of the mock trial is to apply modern evidence law standards to a trial that would have taken place in the 19th century.

Steve Fischer finished law school in Ohio in 2010 — one of the worst years to graduate in recent memory. Less than 70 percent of law school grads who passed the bar in Ohio that year landed a job as an attorney. He finally called an old friend and asked if he was hiring.

He was — in fact he was desperate for help. Soon, Fischer, “was making better money than most of my law school classmates.”